GitMerge2017

Brussels

February 2

February 3

About Git Merge

Git Merge is the pre-eminent Git-focused conference: a full-day offering technical content and user case studies, plus a day of workshops for Git users of all levels. Git Merge 2017 took place February 2-3 in Brussels.

Git Merge is dedicated to amplifying new voices in the Git community and to showcasing the most thought-provoking projects from contributors, maintainers and community managers around the world.

Speakers

Karen M. Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Karen is known for her advocacy for free software, particularly as a cyborg in relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy, she was executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen co-organizes Outreachy, the award-winning outreach program for women. She is also pro bono lawyer to the FSF and GNOME. Karen is a recipient of the O’Reilly Open Source Award and cohost of the oggcast Free as in Freedom.

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Saeed is on the Visual Studio Team Services team at Microsoft, focused on helping some very large teams within Microsoft migrate to Git. Among other things, this means solving some hard scale problems in Git, which is a great source of fun. He also enjoys rock climbing, road biking, and music.

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Santiago P. De Rosso is a PhD student in the Software Design Group at MIT. He used to work at Google, developing tools to make engineers more productive. He currently spends most of his time thinking about how to make software, and the process of software engineering, better.

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Caren is an Implementation Engineer at BazaarVoice in Austin, Texas. She's an organizer for her local chapter of Women Who Code, a perennial optimist and enjoys delicious German beers, fika, tacos and travel. She is an Alumna and Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas.

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Durham is the tech lead on the Source Control team at Facebook. He has spent the past 4 years making distributed version control scale to some of the largest repositories in the world. He has helped teach thousands of engineers to use source control and has a keen interest in making it more approachable to everyone.

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Lars is the technical lead for Git at Autodesk, working out of Berlin, Germany. His current work involves migrating large codebases to Git, establishing Git workflows within teams, and maintaining a GitHub Enterprise instance. He is a Git contributor, the author of the ShowInGitHub Xcode plugin, and an avid kiteboarder.

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Tim is a Bitbucket developer by day, and Git evangelist by night. His current technology passions are serverless architecture, Git, Node.js, game dev, and DevOps - but he'll talk to you about anything shiny and tech-related really. When Tim's not developing or talking about code, he likes riding mountain bikes and eating good Mexican food, which is unfortunate because he lives 13,000km from Mexico. Tim writes about all things Git here, here, here, and sometimes here -- and way too much here

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Tamir Gefen is the founder of ALMtoolbox, a company that provides add-on solutions for variety of ALM \ DevOps tools. He's SCM & ALM professional with more than 15 years of hands-on experience of methodologies and tools. He also enjoys playing guitar and piano.

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A software engineer and security researcher living in Brussels, Belgium, Meredith L. Patterson co-chairs the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security. Meredith founded the field of Language-Theoretic Security in 2005. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in linguistics.

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Thordur Bjornsson is a pragmatic and result-oriented developer who cares deeply about resilience, robustness, and reliability. He has over a decade of experience hacking on databases, protocols, storage, and open source operating systems.